Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to be safe , turn off the electricity and remove the fuses for the downstairs lighting Circuit and the upstairs ring main while you do this on the first floor — these cables are under the floorboards . |
| 2 | Durham County Council used several tonnes of grit — and its new snow-blower — in a bid to keep main roads open . |
| 3 | Developing nations become main buyers of solar power technology |
| 4 | L of C train via Rouen departs Main Station at 1530 . |
| 5 | Bath/shower mixers ( fitted in place of existing bath taps ) and electric showers ( connected only to the cold rising main ) are the easiest to fit . |
| 6 | Cars were abandoned in Plymouth as rain flooded main routes , and a landslide on the M5 near Exeter led to further disruption . |
| 7 | If you have a lead rising main , it may well be that you can see it only at the mains stopcock , after which it disappears into the wall to re-emerge in the loft covered with sacking on its way to the cold water cistern . |
| 8 | Typically , Japanese and German firms have main banks that step in when their client is in financial difficulties , and reorganise its management and its debts . |
| 9 | If you 're going on a long journey alone , plan your route in advance using main roads as far as possible . |
| 10 | But how can you imagine that Count von Bismarck who has engineered all of this de longue main to provoke us , will let the opportunity slip ? |
| 11 | Old galvanised iron rising main and cold feed pipes can usually be removed with Stillsons ; a metal overflow pipe may be so rusted that the only answer is to cut it off . |
| 12 | DS7 SECTIONAL COMPLETION AND PROGRAMMING RISING MAIN |
| 13 | Let us now consider the requirements of a multiprogramming system , where we have a number of programs occupying main storage and competing for an allocation of time on the processor . |
| 14 | A JURY in Los Angeles yesterday ordered the actress Kim Basinger to pay Main Line Pictures $8.9 million , ( around £6 million ) finding that she reneged on a contract to play the leading role in the film Boxing Helena . |
| 15 | Vehicles use main roads and deliver at night to ease congestion and to save fuel . |
| 16 | Every single dog , when the record comes up , has got a field headed main use and then says something like guide dog , guard dog , rabbiting or whatever it is . |
| 17 | Shortly after river begins ( away to right ) , pick up path ( boggy ) and follow glen to reach main road by car park and AA box . |
| 18 | Salop public wanted main road traffic growth increase of 50% since 1979 . |
| 19 | Provost John Cunningham admitted that Main had not possessed a commission as watchman and was indeed an extraordinary officer employed only when there was work for him to perform , but there seems little reason to doubt that Main 's removal was intended to serve the political interest of the Haldanes , for his removal was not an isolated case , and , moreover , when the Hamilton salt works resumed operations the excise supervisors did not in fact restore Main to his old post , but appointed an individual named Curinan to the vacancy . |
| 20 | Soccer : Leeds waste main chance DIVISION ONE |